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All the ideas for 'works', 'Logicism, Some Considerations (PhD)' and 'Rules for the Direction of the Mind'

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6 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

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Obtaining numbers by abstraction is impossible - there are too many; only a rule could give them, in order [Benacerraf]

13413

We must explain how we know so many numbers, and recognise ones we haven't met before [Benacerraf]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers

13411

If numbers are basically the cardinals (Frege-Russell view) you could know some numbers in isolation [Benacerraf]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism

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An adequate account of a number must relate it to its series [Benacerraf]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

9807	In pursuing truth, anything less certain than mathematics is a waste of time [Descartes]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / a. Physicalism critique

3448	Do new ideas increase the weight of the brain? [Dance]